The California State Assembly has just passed a bipartisan resolution by voice vote which constitutes a serious attack on academic freedom and the rights of students and faculty to raise awareness about human rights abuses by U.S.-backed governments.

The lightning speed at which our infamously slow state legislature is trying to pass a statewide teacher evaluation framework can only mean one thing -- lawmakers don't want anyone to understand what's really in there.

For the health and comfort of ill patients, for the sanity of local bureaucrats, and to reduce the costs of legal uncertainty to city and state government, California needs sensible, statewide regulation of medical marijuana.